Improvement in carbureting air



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Leners Para.: N0.100,534, @ma Meret 8,1870.

'u IMPROVEMENT IN CAR'B'URETING AIR.

, l. mi i r Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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Be it, known that I, CHARLES LAwnEnoE, of Gincess thereby continued. v Y t cinnati, inthe county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, From the said chamber M-the vapor collects in the `have invented a new and improved Oarbureting-Apspace O above, passing throughanother'perforated paratus; and I do "hereby declare that the -following is plate. from whence it is conveyed by the pipe l to the r a full, clear, and exact'descriptionA thereof, which will bottom. of the next gen'eral division D of the apparatus, enable othersskilled inthe art to make` and use the where it passes through a similar course, andpassing same, reference being had to the accompanying drawtherefrom into a third division, Q, which I denominate ing forming part of `this specification. y theoondensing division, passing this time downward The invention relates to the art of carbureting at-V through the perforated plates and absorbent material lmospheric air for illuminating purposes, and into the space R, from which it is takenby the pipe S It consists inpassing it through Aintermittent baths, to the gasomet-er, or to the gas-mains.

andr drying it at intervals between each bath.` Y The bottom of the space R may be provided with a I `will now describe, in accordance with the requirev cock,A for drawing off any water of condensation which ments of .lawa.machine* which will carry `out "and exy"may he deposited there emplit'y in apractical way theprocessfor which I de- Other cocks may be applied to the chambers F, for sire Letters Patent. testing and/governing the height of the gasoline there- Figure l represents a longitudinal sectional elevain, and for drawing off the said chambers from time to tion .of my improved apparatus, and 4 time.` l

, -Figure 2 represents' a plan view-oi` the same. The pipe V is designed to equalize the volume of Similar letters of reference indicate, corresponding` gasoline in each .of the chambers F, as'that in the rst parts` n chamber is taken up more rapidly by the air than in I provide a vessel,"A, of any preferred form, of sheet the other.

'h metal of any suitable kind, and divided into two or I propose to arrange a gasoline-reservoir upon the fmore general divisions, O D, by vertical dividing-wills, top of the apparatus, or in any other preferred arrange- E. These general divisions aredivided horizontally ment, for holding the supply, and connected to the in'to any preferrednumber of chambers, andv by perfor pipe G to facilitate the delivery of the same into the atecLdividing-plates. reservoir in -small quantities, say each day by opening F representsthe gasoline-chamber, to which the the cock and allowing it to flow in to about the amount gasoline is admitted by the pipe G. consumed, which I considerl preferable to supplying Near the bottom of thelsrad chamber is provided alarger quantities at greater intervals.

perforated plate, H, by whichth'e air'which is admit- Having thus described my invention,

* ted throughthebottom from the pipe I is spread and I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patr disseminated,thoroughly throughout the gasoline. entn 4 To'further effect the said dissemination, a depresv The process of carhureting air by passing Athe same sion, 1x," is formed "in the bottom of the vessel, around through intermittent baths of hydrocarbon liquid, and the mouth Vofthe pipe I, and a perforated plate, L, `drying it between each bath, as 'and for the purpose placed over "the same. specified.

Above the chamber ,Fis another chamber, M, sep- CHARLES LAWRENCE. arated therefrom by a perforated plate, N. This cham- WVitnesses': Y v ber is filled with sponge, or any other preferred ab- N. MARCHANT,

sorbentmaterialyand through it the vapor lof gasoline AUGs. LAWRENCE.

taken up by the airk passed, and theimpregnating pro- 

